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Does the extent of branchless banking adoption enhance the social and financial performance of microfinance institutions?
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)We examine the impact of the extent of branchless banking adoption on the social and financial performance of an international sample of microfinance institutions (MFIs). We find that increasing the number of branchless ... -
Downpayment, mobility and default: A welfare analysis
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)In this paper, I study the impact of the relaxation of downpayment requirements on home-ownership and default risk in the context of a static spatial life cycle model. Given its quantitative success in matching the U.S. ... -
Dynamic performance, financial leverage and financial crisis: Evidence from GCC countries
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of financial leverage on firm’s performance in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Additionally, this paper investigates the impact of recent financial ... -
Dynamic risk spillovers and portfolio risk management between precious metals and global foreign exchange markets
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study examines portfolio management and risk spillovers between four major precious metals (gold, silver, palladium and platinum) and 20 important U.S. exchange markets. To this end, we employ the multivariate DECO-GARCH ... -
Dynamic risk spillovers between gold, oil prices and conventional, sustainability and Islamic equity aggregates and sectors with portfolio implications
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)This paper investigates the time-varying equicorrelations and risk spillovers between crude oil, gold and the Dow Jones conventional, sustainability and Islamic stock index aggregates and 10 associated disaggregated Islamic ... -
Dynamic volatility transmission and portfolio management across major cryptocurrencies: Evidence from hourly data
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study used hourly data to examine the dynamic conditional correlations and hedging strategies in the main cryptocurrency markets: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Ripple (XRP). Multivariate generalized ... -
Economic development in the middle east and North Africa: Challenges and prospects
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book)Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders ... -
Economic Policies and the Possibilities of Unified GCC Currency
( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)The aim of this study is to identify the extent to which the GCC countries can adopt similar economic policies by the time the GCC unified currency is formed in 2010. Among other convergence standards, we examined the ... -
Effect of aggregate, mandatory and voluntary disclosure on firm performance in a developing market: The case of Kuwait
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2018 , Article)This paper examines the relationship between corporate disclosure and firm performance for the case of listed companies in the Kuwait Stock Exchanges (KSE). Our sample contains 51 non-financial firms that represent 42% of ... -
The effect of political risk and corporate governance on bank stability in the MENA region: Did the Arab Spring uprisings matter?
( Cogent OA , 2023 , Article)This study examines the impact of political risk and corporate governance mechanisms (CGM) on bank stability. The research problem was addressed using a sample of 954 bank-year observations from 14 Middle East and North ... -
Effects of board and ownership structure on corporate performance: Evidence from GCC countries
( emerald insight , 2014 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of ownership structure and board composition on bank performance as measured by Tobin's Q and market to book value in Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) countries. ... -
Effects of pro-growth policies on employment: evidence of regional disparities
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)The main objective of our research is to study the direct impact of pro-growth economic policies on employment creation globally and regionally, as evidence has countered policy-makers’ expectation that output growth leads ... -
Empirical evidence on the long and short run determinants of health expenditure in the Arab world
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)This paper empirically examines the determinants of health care spending for 18 Arab world countries for the period 1995–2015 by using recently developed panel cointegration techniques. We conducted the same estimations ... -
An empirical investigation of trade flows between Australia and its major trading partners
( University of Wollongong , 2014 , Article)This study introduces Net Export (NX) models to examine the determinants of the trade flows between Australia and eight selected trading partner (TP) countries (China, France, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, United ... -
Employee welfare and stock price crash risk
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)We examine whether employee welfare practices are associated with future stock price crash risk. Two competing hypotheses were tested: the stakeholder theory hypothesis & the agency theory hypothesis. According to the ... -
Energy Demand Estimation and Forecasting in Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)The economic theory provides a rationale for linking the energy demand to a number of variables that might affect it. Starting from that, the empirical analyses specify a number of alternative specifications of the energy ... -
Enhancing the export activities of small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2022 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to examine a conceptual integrated framework for small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) export performance that comprises all potential export determinants and inhibitors. This study also ... -
Entrepreneurship and genetics: New Evidence
( Elsevier Inc , 2019 , Article)This paper seeks to better understand the differences in entrepreneurship rates across administrative regions and countries. Using several measures of entrepeneurship, as well as regional and panel data of countries, it ... -
Entrepreneurship Education: A Global Consideration From Practice to Policy Around the World
( Qatar Foundation , 2015 , Report)As entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum and visibility as an engine of global economic development, it is critical to understand and optimize the role that entrepreneurship education plays. Based on a detailed ... -
Environment Degradation and Economic Growth in the Qatar Economy: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Air pollution, global greenhouse gases (GHG), water pollution and water resources degradation are among the most serious environmental concerns that encounter the Qatar country. In nowadays, it is commonly known that the ...